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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

How to share a folder with Read/Write access using Samba on Linux

ArsGeek's guide to setting up Samba on your linux machine. This guide will show you how to install Samba, set up a new user, grant them access to your share, create the share folder and tell Samba what to do.

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Flash Player 9 on Linux using wine

This tutorial shows how to install the Flash player on a Linux system. It was tested on Dapper Drake (on an x86 - 32 bit machine).

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Monday, August 28, 2006

HOWTO: Setup Samba peer-to-peer with Windows

This is a great article for people wanting to easily share files between their Windows- and Ubuntu-running computers.

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Sharing files through NFS

While all of my family’s home pcs access the same shared network storage device for music, videos and photos, I also wanted to take advantage of my pc’s huge 250GB hard drive. Specifically, I have some videos on my pc, and I wanted my wife’s pc in the kitchen to be able to access [...]

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How to execute programs automatically in Linux

This is a tutorial that shows you how to use cron in a very detailed way. I think it is very well explained and I did liked it.

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Flash 9 for Ubuntu

With this tweak, you can trick Firefox into thinking it has Flash 9. It's not completely fool-proof, but it works on sites like Myspace.

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A Gentle Introduction to SQL

Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access.

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Best Ubuntu Guide Ever

Frustrated with trying to get simple stuff done? This guide has everything you need. Things like mapping the windows key to something useful, where to get codecs, getting XGL to workCovers Dapper Drake as well as earlier versions.

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Friday, August 25, 2006

An X Window System video tutorial

What exactly does the X Window System do? What does a Window Manager do? This 5 part video tutorial tries to explain the job the X Window System has and the job of Window Managers. (Note: these videos won't interest you in the slightest if you are a ... "I don't care about the details, I want it to *just work!*" ... kind of person.


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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Simple XGL on Ubuntu

Finally able to find a decent guide on how to set up XGL on Dapper Drake, don
�t get me wrong, the guides over at Ubuntuforums.org are great as well, but this one took care of business within the first thirty seconds of trying, literally speaking.

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Saturday, August 05, 2006

Watch Streaming TV Online for Free! (HBO, ESPN, ABC, etc.)

This is a completely free, user driven site. According to them it's legal. but you decide...

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Why fonts on Windows look better than Linux

If you are wondering why fonts on Linux (especially on distributions like Ubuntu) look horrible, this post provides some insight into the reasons behind this.
Check this too
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/

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